A member of the Twin Rivers Unified School District Board of Trustees was arrested on conspiracy to obstruct justice and conceal evidence by submitting a false DNA test to deny the paternity of a child he fathered with a school employee, the Sacramento County District Attorney said Wednesday morning.

Cortez Quinn, a member of the board since 2007, developed a personal relationship with a female school employee from whom he received gifts and loans while on the board, prosecutors said. State law forbids school board members from receiving loans from a school employee.

The gifts totaled $4,000 and the loans added up to more than $50,000.

Quinn is being charged with felony counts of perjury, four felony counts of filing false documents and five misdemeanor counts related to improper receipt of the loans and gifts, the district attorney said.

The relationship with the employee resulted in her pregnancy and the birth of a son in December 2011.

After the employee filed a paternity action, Quinn was summoned by a court to submit a DNA test.

The district attorney said Quinn and Andre Antoine Pearson, a laboratory technician, submitted false DNA samples which showed Quinn was not the father. Quinn then used that test result in court to deny paternity.

Pearson and Quinn are both charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice and conceal evidence and other felonies.

Quinn faces a maximum of 12 years imprisonment on the felony offenses.